I reflected back on the conversation I had with Steve Penfold(comic artist I met in Comic Con) about the Stories in the Middle. In his theory, fanfiction had a spectrum with sexual and pornographic plots used as fan service at one spectrum, and the original fiction(really splendid ones like Harry Potter and the Lord of the Rings) on the right, which had characters that were strictly censored by copyright laws. Both ends have a strong and fixed group of audiences, but we are missing the stories in the middle. The stories that people have told and retold throughout history and slowly became what we call mythology.(I mean that is how mythology is created and formed).

After gaining feedback from the Newspaper intervention, I drew the conclusion that slash-fic can have deep character depth as any original work.

So, in this intervention, I aim to create a propaganda that brands fanfiction as telling alternate stories of the characters we love, rather than simply using original characters for sex.

This intervention has steps:

Step 1: Collect the stories in the middle from slash readers and slash writers;

Step 2: Measuring the stories: (Not quite sure measuring will make sense…)Brand the stories with character archetypes instead of tops and bottoms;

Step 3: Showcase the stories (in newspaper form?) and show it to literature professors, and media industries.